Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall

Monstrance

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• 1 Alloy Ceremony
• 2 Live At The Chrome Cathedral
• 3 Midas In Reverse
• 4 Irkutsk
• 5 Phraseodymium
• 6 Promethium
• 7 In The Sheltering Sanctus Of Minerals

Monstrance documents Mika Vainio & Joachim Nordwall reshaping guitars, drums and incendiary electronics at Einstürzende Neubauten’s Berlin studio back in 2010. The results were originally issued by Touch in 2013, with this new 2LP edition now arriving on Nordwall’s iDEAL label five years later as a posthumous tribute and reminder of his erstwhile collaborator. In our opinion, it’s one of Vainio’s most crucial and absorbing collaborations; moving away from ice-cold electronic precision and into a more visceral re-rendering of Metal that’s an abolute must-hear if you’re into Earth, Sunn O))), Fushitsusha and, needless to say, any of Vainio or Nordwall’s productions.